Best linux distro for AMD hardware?
 

I have an AMD Ryzen 2400G and an RX 560. I always thought that my system is not as fast as it should be (or at least as I would expect it to be). From your personal experience, what was the fastest and most stable distro you ever tried for this hardware? Alternative, are there things I can tweak to improve my experience?

the best is obviously mine. debian. but I use ubuntu too. and windows. all work perfectly.

 

Too vague. How are you measuring "not as fast as it should be"?

First of all, I modified post a little bit (in that specific part) because I wanted to be a little bit clear. First of all, graphics performance! When I was playing games (even back on Windows days), I was getting worse performance than the guys on YT that had the same hardware. So this put me in thoughts.

Also, trying different distros, I had different results so I suppose the distro plays a role too. Artix is the fastest on (at least when it comes to boot times, opening apps, etc.) I've tried but it has a bug and I cannot install it.

Finally, another (and probably the best one) things that bother me is the, my PC is fast but compared to other hardware, it's not as fast as I would expect. For example, I may compare it with a hardware that is 3-4 times worse but the performance is not 3-4 times better. Especially anything graphics related seems just awefull. Even the text I'm typing right now in the browser window, seems to be laggy and the text seems to render really bad.

It may just be me but I don't know. I always had this thought in the back of my head and I finally thought about making a question in case someone had a similar experience.

When evaluating performance you have to find out what your bottleneck is. What resource is being used 100%. This could be CPU time, disk access speed, memory size, graphics card speed, or Internet speed. Then you improve the performance of the component being used 100%. As you improve the performance of the critical component you will eventually reach the point that it is fast enough that another component has reached 100% usage and the second component is where you should spend your efforts to improve performance.

Looking at the problem from a software standpoint, it is rare for Linux software to under utilize a component. It is unlikely that you can speed up your critical component by switching software.

Different machines have different ratios of % utilization of the different components. The critical component on one system might not be the same as the critical component on another system. If the critical components are the same then the speed ratio of the two systems should be the speed ratio of the critical components. You might be looking at the ratio of cpu speeds when the critical component is actually the graphics card for example.

I recommend that you figure out what component you are utilizing 100% as the first step on diagnosing your problem.

Clear linux is a highly optimized distribution from Intel and it won hands down in a benchmark test of out of the box default installations. You can probably work at evening the score by optimizing any one of the others.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...-distros&num=1

Thank you. I found that very interesting.

Thank you! I have heard about it before but people said that the reason it wins the benchmarks is because it enables some optimizations that may not be safe and can mess some floating point operations. I also don't know if it is only optimized with Intel CPUs. Thanks a lot regardless, I'll take a look at it!